Why does the discriminator minimize the cross-entropy while the generator maximize it?
Your mistake is that you think that the referenced $V(D,G)$ is the deifinition of the cross entropy! Indeed, the cross entropy is defined base on the negative value of the $V(D,G)$. Hence, if you consider the minus behind the $V(D,G)$ ($-V(D,G)$) the sentence will be meaningful.